Hot News :: Legislative Victory for Arizona Self-Storage Operators!
In the wee hours of this morning, while exhausted Arizona legislators worked to pass a budget, self-storage operators in the state landed a fantastic victory with the passage of HB2435, a bill that amends the notification requirements for self-storage lien sales. Introduced to the legislature by the Arizona Self-Storage Association (AZSA) and spearheaded by attorney Richard Marmor, the bill will save the state’s self-storage operators money by changing the requirement for expensive Certified Mail notices and newspaper advertisements prior to sale. “We were on a death watch. We were sure we were going to go down in flames,” ...
plumber July 2, 2009 11:28:42 AM
You have won, however a major fault is you have given your responsibility as a business owner over to the less responsible US Post Office employee. Wow, brilliant! You are relying on a postal worker to “verify” and in fact there are cases that show the post worker has stated, in writing, that occupants have moved without notifying the postal service of a forwarding address. It is possible mail box are over stuffed with junk mail. In some cases the occupant never moved resulting in cancellation of home owners insurance, foreclosing for vacant & abandoning property and failure to pay HOA dues, all due to the false notification to senders of “Moved-no forwarding address” so all correspondence stop due to the decision of a postal worker employee. Brilliant! Some self-storage owners are becoming lazy. Foreclosing on occupants property is a pain in the neck, however it is part of the landlords job. As a landlord, it is like clockwork, you just do it, the legal human way. These costs are in your overhead and possible the real culprit is the corporate self-storage operator who is lazy, cheap and after the almighty buck (ROI). If your job were easy everybody would be doing it. If rents were paid on time your job would be easier. Maybe we need a self-storage czar, right? Brilliant!Bob July 3, 2009 4:17:25 AM
I'm not sure what "expense" they are arguing about here. I worked for a large national company in Arizona and they charged a hefty lien fee $75 - $100 to cover those "expensive" certifieds, and the paperwork process. This definitely paid for the administrative costs involved, of course they almost always lost money on the auction itself. But, otherwise kudos for defeating the government, no matter what the cause.